SMART SHOE FOR WOMEN SAFETY
Vishesh Sharma, Yati Tomar, D. Vydeki
School of Electronics Engineering, VIT Chennai, India
Vishesh.sharma2016@vitstudent.ac.in,
yatiitomar@gmail.com, Vydeki.d@vit.ac.in
Abstract—The world needs to be concerned about the
women around and treat them the way they deserve to be
treated. Despite having so many laws for women, it doesn’t stop
thieves, assaulters or molesters to abuse women. This paper
suggests a smart shoe that not only helps women take care of
themselves but also help them be fearless. This project makes
use of GPS, GSM modules, a shock circuit and camera, that are
interfaced with Raspberry Pi board and Arduino. Women
facing any troubles or in any kind of danger, can immediately
make use of this device, embedded in their shoe to escape from
the dangerous situation and even harm the attacker.
Keywords—Women safety, IoT, live streaming, GPS, GSM,
gender issues, electric teaser, smart shoe
I. INTRODUCTION
Moving along with the fast pacing world may be a bit
hard but it gets even harder if you are a woman. Though
women have achieved high accomplishments and have even
served India on honorable positions like The President and
The Prime Minister yet they need safety surety and it doesn’t
sound feasible if they have to get a guard 24*7 around them
for protection, so what can these women look up to? A safety
device that they can always carry with them which would
make them independent and confident.
This paper introduces the users to a smart shoe that
women can use to alert their family members and even harm
the attacker. Section 2 of this paper contains the related
works, section 3 has the proposed methodology proceeded
by the description and the implementation in the section 4.
Section 5 has the results and Section 6 concludes the paper
with future work.
II. RELATED WORKS
There are mobile apps in the market developed for the
safety of women specifically designed for android or iOS,
some of which have paid premium features that may help
save a life in threatening situations ,for example - VithU
App[1]that allows you to send SOS alerts to the listed
contacts by just pressing the power key of the phone twice.
It also sends the GPS location every time the power button
is pressed. Life360 Family Locator App [2], this app lets you
create a circle of friends and family and allow them to see
each other’s location on a confidential map. Additional
feature of the app includes tracking your phone if it gets lost
or stolen.
An emergency watch[3] was made by Punith Kumar
and Shiva Kumar that uses Atmega 328
Microcontroller and have GPS module to detect the
location and display it on the watch ,it also has a voice
recognition module that saves the voice in a sim card
and sends it to the nearby police station that can be
further used as evidence too.
[4] SHE- Society Harnessing Equipment developed
by Manisha Mohan, Niladri Basu Bal, Rimpi Tripathi
had sensors and shock circuit board attached to the
inner wear whereas the underlying layer in contact with
skin is insulated with the help of a polymer. The circuit
is placed near the bosom because women are attacked
there first, in case of eve-teasing or rape.
[5] Smart Belt, this system was designed with a
portable device which resembles a normal belt. It
consists of Arduino Board, screaming alarm and
pressure sensors. When the threshold of the pressure
sensor crosses, the device will be activated
automatically. The screaming alarm unit will be
activated and send sirens asking help.
III. PROPOSED METHODOLOGY
This paper suggests a new technology to protect
women. It focuses on their security so that they never
feel helpless. The paper consists of various modules
such as GSM, GPS, shock circuit, camera and
Raspberry pi-3. The basic idea of the project is
alarming the emergency contacts on pressing the
emergency switch located on the side of the shoe.
Inside the shoe, there are GPS and GSM modules that
combinedly send the location to the emergency contact.
The shock circuit generates a shock of 400KV that is
sufficient to buy the victim enough time to escape.
Meanwhile, on pressing the switch, message will be
sent asking for help containing a link that directs the
guardian to Amazon Web Services Kinesis that offers
live streaming or to a google drive link (by
MotionEyeOS) where 30 seconds short clips would be
saved. The live video is recorded with the help of
camera. The 5 V battery used in the shock circuit is
powered by piezoelectric sensors connected in series at
the sole of the shoe. Figure 1 shows the block diagram
used in this paper.

Fig 1: System block Diagram
The main controllers used in this project are Arduino Uno and
Raspberry Pi. There are GPS and GSM modules connected to
Arduino whereas the camera module is attached to Raspberry Pi.
If a woman is walking alone or faces any danger, she should
immediately press the emergency button present on the shoe. As
soon as the button is pressed, electric teaser is activated which
can be used to give shock to the attacker, the electric teaser
produces 400KV shock, simultaneously, GPS and GSM modules
are activated with the help of Arduino Uno. GPS module
calculates your exact location by knowing the latitude and
longitude position whereas the GSM module sends the location
Fig 2: Circuit Diagram of the model.
of the person as well as a link that contains the video
live streaming which will help in identifying the attacker
and also keep them updated about the situation to bring
help accordingly. The camera module works on
Raspberry Pi and can be kept on even before stepping
out of the house at night or to lonely places. This paper
used Motioneyeos for storing videos to the google drive.
The camera can be embedded into a locket and hence
could capture proper timeline of events. Alternatively,
another switch can be used to start the camera’s
capturing feature. The GPS and GSM modules
miniature version chip can be included in the real shoe
like its done in cell phones so that it can easily fit inside
the sole of the shoe. Our choice of shoe is really handy
because even if the hands of the women are tied up, they
can still press the shoes against each other to activate the
switch or press it firmly against any object or even the
ground to alert the pre-stored emergency contacts.
Similarly, the women can give shock to the attacker by
just kicking backwards which is very easy and intuitive
too. Also it is not easily guessed if the emergency button
would be present on the shoe. The total hardware setup
is shown in Figure 2.
IV.HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
The diagram of components available inside the
shoe module is shown in Figure 3. This module consists
of GPS and GSM modules which are described in the
subsequent section.
Fig. 3: Circuit Diagram: Shoe Module
A. GPS module
GPS is a space-based satellite navigation system. It
provides location and time information in all weather
conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth. A minimum of
four satellites may be required to compute the four
dimensions of X, Y, Z (latitude, longitude and elevation)
and time. GPS receiver converts the received signals into
position[6].
V. RESULTS
It is a well-known fact that women outside their
homes are rarely safe as one or more disasters are
waiting upon them but with this smart shoe that
immediately sends live video streaming to your
contacts, the cases would be soon diminished to zero.

Fig 4: Circuit Diagram: Locket Module

Fig 6: Live Streaming

B. GSM module
A GSM module is a specialized type of module that
accepts a SIM card and operates over a subscription to a
mobile operator just like a mobile phone[6]. It delivers
messages to the pre-stored numbers in case of an
emergency and hence alerts the family members. This is
the most important part of the project.
Both the GPS as well as the GSM modules are
interfaced with the Arduino as seen in Figure 3. Circuito.io
site has been used to make that circuit.

C. Camera Module
A camera module is an image sensor integrated with
a lens, control electronics, and an interface[7]. It gets
interfaced with Raspberry Pi into the locket module to
stream live video as shown in Figure 4. The real model is
shown in Figure 5.

Fig 5: Camera Module

Fig 7: Videos Stored

 Fig 8 Images Stored

In emergency situations, as soon as the button is pressed,

through motioneyeos, a folder Women Safety is created as
seen in Figure 7 and the images and videos get stored in
another folder within it (Figure 8) with the date of the
accident. Figure 6 shows Live Streaming of the content on
pressing the emergency switch.

VI. CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE

The life-saving effective shoe comes in a low cost and

gives benefits in the long term too as criminals may fear
being caught and would think a lot of times before attacking
anybody. Women won’t feel helpless anymore and can walk
out at any time of the day without concerning about their
safety. Our proposed system is very durable and provides
consistent results. In future, using nanotechnologies and
embedded system designs, the camera module can be
immersed inside a locket or any other wearable which would
give the access to capture the face of the attacker with
relative ease.

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